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Ennius

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Ennius
Quintus . 239--169 bc, Roman epic poet and dramatist


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27) Other authors whom he explains include (in the order in which they are mentioned) Auhis Gellius, Donatus, Livy, Caesar, Suetonius, the two Plinys, the younger Seneca, Virgil, Ennius, Persius, Tacitus, Juvenal, Horace, Catullus, Ausonius, Hyginus, Servius, Martial, Sallust, and Lucretius.
As late as the second century BCE, the Latin poet Ennius wrote his history in dactylic hexameter, the meter of epic.
Second: she drives a continuous parallelism between Boccaccio and the Latin classic authors, Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Statius, and Ennius, classic authors of Boccaccio's time such as Dante and Petrarch, and also minor authors like Giacomo Da Lentini, Filippo Villani, Brunerto Latini, and Cino Da Pistoia.
 
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